Susanna (Garbrand) Goodwin (1593 - 1676)

Born 1593 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Hooker — married 3 Apr 1621 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died 17 May 1676 at about age 83 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Susanna (Garbrand) Goodwin was born in England.

Rev. Thomas Hooker married in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, 3 April 1621, Susannah Garbrand. They came to Massachusetts Bay in 1633 in the "Griffin." They first settled in Cambridge MA & moved to Hartford CT in 1636. They had eight known children: Joanna Shepard, Mary Newton, Anne, Sarah, Sarah Wilson, John, Samuel, & a son who died young.

She married (2) after 7 December 1654 and before January 1669/70 WILLIAM GOODWIN. (At a Particular Court held on 7 December 1654 Walter Gray was confessed to and was punished for "his gross abuse & evil in slandering Mr. Will[iam] Goodwyn & Mar. Hooker in charging them with the act of adultery." ^[1]

Biographical Notes from Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England, 1629-1640, page 323:^[2]

Susan, born about 1593; mentioned in the will of her brother John Garbrand in 1618, as living and not having received her portion of her parents' estates.

After her mother's death in 1609, she probably lived awhile with her childless aunt, Mrs. Christian (Garbrand) Chaloner, wife of Rev. Robert Chaloner, D.D., rector of Amersham, co. Bucks. From this association a few years later she became "waiting-gentlewoman" to Mrs. Joane (Tothill) Drake,^[3] who was the eldest of the thirty-three children of William Tothill, Esq., lord of the Manor of Shardeloes in Amersham, and had married in 1603 Franceis Drake, Esq. of Esher, co. Surrey, a suburb of London.

While living in this household Susan Garbrand became acquainted with Rev. Thomas Hooker, who in 1620 became curate of Esher and "had his diet and lodging" in Mr. Drake's house.

The statement that Hooker's wife was the waiting-gentlewoman of Mrs. Drake appears in a little contemporary book entitled "Trodden down Strength by the God of Strength or Mrs. Drake Revived." Mrs. Drake died 18 April 1625.

The will of Francis Drake, Esq., dated 13 March 1633/4 gave to "Joanna Hooker, now in New England, 30 pounds at her day of marriage"; she was the eldest child of Rev. Thomas Hooker and goddaughter of Mrs. Drake.

Rev. Thomas Hooker and Susan Garbrand were married at Amersham, co. Bucks, 3 April 1621 by her aunt's husband, Rev. Robert Chaloner, D.D. rector of that parish.

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Begins (1995), p ?
2. ↑ Genealogical Notes On the Founding of New England, 1629-1640, page 323.
3. ↑ "Trodden down Strength by the God of Strength or Mrs. Drake Revived."

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35667319/susannah-harkes-goodwin
• Hooker, Edward. The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 (Rochester, N.Y., 1909) Page 3
• Goodwin, James. The Goodwins of Hartford, Connecticut (Brown and Gross, Hartford, Conn., 1891) Page 105
• Hollister, Gideon. The History of Connecticut, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1857) Vol. 1, Page 509
• Anderson's Great Migration Begins
• Mahler, Leslie. Garbrand alias Harkes Notes: The Ancestry of Susana Garbrand, wife of Rev Thomas¹ Hooker of Hartford, Connecticut and William Goodwin of Hartford and Farmington in The American Genealogist, Vol 75 (2000), pages 225-28. NEHGS Member link.